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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:31:41 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Ian Moore" <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Sendmail masquerading configuration
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEHHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502162040.18799.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ian Moore
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:10 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Ruben de Groot; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:14, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Ian Moore wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > >> I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use
> > >> the -f flag.  The flags are settible in cron/config.h in
> the source,
> > >> FreeBSD uses
> > >>
> > >> #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t"
>       /*-*/
> > >>
> > >> just change this to
> > >>
> > >> #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -froot@verizon.net -odi -oem -oi
> > >> -t" /*-*/
> > >>
> > >> Ted
> > >
> > > Thanks, I'll give that a go.
>
> Hi,
> Sorry, I'm still having trouble with this - my changes don't seem to
> have had any effect, cron is still sending mail as
> root@internal.hamcoll.sa.edu.au (Cron Daemon)
> I think I've done something wrong!
>
> What I did was:
>
> #cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/cron/cron
> #ee config.h:
> and I changed the line
>   #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t"
>     /*-*/
>   to
>   #define MAILARGS "%s -Froot@hamcoll.sa.edu.au -odi -oem -oi
> -t"  /*-*/
>
> (I assume the # at the beginning is correct?)
>

Yes.  But, the line is incorrect - it needs to be the following:

#define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -froot@hamcoll.sa.edu.au -odi -oem -oi

See my earlier posting for this.   "man sendmail" also will explain the
flags a bit as well.

The rest of the stuff is fine.

Ted




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